The Colonial Beach School Board has asked Virginia State Police to investigate the system’s financial records again.

This time, according to Westmoreland Commonwealth’s Attorney Dean J. Atkins, “the School Board has requested the state police to investigate money matters” in the school system.

Colonial Beach Police Chief Chris Hawkins said School Board members met with state police today.

Colonial Beach School Board Chairman Timothy Trivett did not respond to calls for comment. Officers of the state’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation could not be reached.

Before Trivett was elected to the School Board last year, he caused another state police investigation of school financial irregularities. Those findings, which have not been made public, were turned over to the commonwealth’s attorney to decide if prosecution was warranted.

The possibility of a second state-police investigation comes on the heels of an audit report released in March that documented serious, widespread deficiencies in the bookkeeping of both the town and the schools. CPA Nancy A. Miller said the Colonial Beach schools owe the town a total of $662,000 in budget deficits. She also said that the schools had improperly borrowed from school accounts and lacked documentation required for federal allocations.